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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
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Durham
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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.
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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said,- Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings and lo! they are flown.
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There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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